It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried

Not doing something that isn’t worth doing is a wonderful way to spend your time.

First it starts as an outlier. Some behavior you don’t love, but tolerate. Then someone else follows suit, but either you miss it or you let it slide. Then people pile on—repeating what they’ve seen because no one stepped in to course correct.

Someone in charge has to make the final call, even if others would prefer a different decision. Good decisions don’t so much need consensus as they need commitment.

What’s especially important in disagree-and-commit situations is that the final decision should be explained clearly to everyone involved. It’s not just decide and go, it’s decide, explain, and go.

The only way to get more done is to have less to do.

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”